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This report focuses on growing trade in food staples in the Southern and Eastern African region of Africa as one of the …. The paper begins by identifying the geographic extent of major maize market sheds in Eastern and Southern Africa. It then … focuses on the South Eastern Africa market shed, the one centered in Malawi, Northern Mozambique and Zambia. This analysis …
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products. Given the importance and sensitivity of the food and agriculture sector in the country, the report highlights a …
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Most recent African indigenous knowledge (IK) literature, especially in agriculture, emphasizes that Africans are …
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Transforming agriculture in Africa is not simply about helping Africa; it is essential for ensuring global food … security. But Africa s agriculture is also of critical importance when it comes to meeting the world s future needs for food … food. But how will the world meet this additional demand? Given Africa s productive potential, it must be a key contributor …
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Agriculture is the economic foundation of many Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, employing about 60 percent of the … challenges of our era. African agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change. Climate-smart agriculture seeks to increase … agriculture's contribution to climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon storage on farmland …
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drivers of the so-called feminization of agriculture in Latin America. This feminization has relevance for everyone given … agriculture's role in regional food security, national shared prosperity, and household resilience to shocks. The objective of … this study is to investigate the feminization of agriculture as well as its implications for women's agency, household …
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More than 90 percent of the population in the Sahel lives on agriculture. The fact that crop production has not kept up …
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This report evaluates the requirements for an assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture to guide policy … makers on investment priorities and phasing. Because agriculture is vital for national food security and is a strong … contributor to Brazil's GDP growth, there is growing concern that Brazilian agriculture is increasingly vulnerable to climate …
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